Elian
The 2025 national count puts Elian at #147, and it is climbing. Modern by the data's own clock (1996 is its first appearance), at 15,268 bearers so far.
What Elian carries
Elian · Latin
“cheerful”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Elian’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Elian, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Elian since 1996
Elian is at its all-time peak right now: #147 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Elian is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Elian runs strongest in New Mexico at 0.35% in 2025, then Rhode Island and Arizona.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Elian
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Emilio
#154 in 2025 · Latin
Felix
#175 in 2025 · Latin
Luka
#85 in 2025 · Latin
Lucia
#83 in 2025 · Latin
August
#81 in 2025 · Latin
Silas
#71 in 2025 · Latin
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
Stella
#52 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with E · Latin names · all names
About Elian
Where does Elian rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Elian at #147, and it is climbing. The chart above draws the whole run since 1996, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Elian?
The reference we cite records “cheerful”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Elian?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Emilio, Felix and Luka, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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